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thanks so much for posting the tips here on this site. Yes!!!
Tip of the Day: File > Backup Project To… allows you to create zipped-up backups of your project. Recommended!
Tip of the Day: Dropbox (www.getdropbox.com) with Scriv’s File > Backup Project To (as zip) is a great way to back up and share Scriv files.
Tip of the Day: To switch between project and document notes, click Document Notes in the Inspector. Project notes can be viewed by any doc.
Tip of the Day: To copy whole documents, use Documents > Duplicate (cmd-D). Or use Simple Duplicate, which won’t copy subdocuments.
Tip of the Day: Preferences only affect text formatting for new documents. For existing docs, use Documents > Convert > to Default Text Style.
Tip of the Day: Text > Ghost Notes Mode fades out unselected annotations and footnotes. Great for making them less obtrusive.
Tip of the Day: Scrivener Links (Text > Scrivener Link, or drag docs into text) allow you to make links between documents in a project.
Tip of the Day: Use the References pane in the Inspector to create links to external files that you don’t want to import into the project.
Tip of the Day: Make sure files have extensions before importing them into Scrivener. Scrivener uses the extension to determine file type.
Tip of the Day: By default Compile Draft uses novel format. Turn off ‘Override…’ in the Formatting tab to export without changing format.
Tip of the Day: To get chapter numbers when you Compile Draft, just enter the <$n> tag into your chapter titles. 2.0 will make this easier!
Tip of the Day: RTF is by far the best export format. To export with footnotes, images, headers and comments intact, choose RTF.
Tip of the Day: To print your entire draft, go to File > Compile Draft and click on the "Print“ button instead of "Export“.
Tip of the Day: To export an entire project with the directory structure intact, select all in the binder and go to File > Export > Files…
Tip of the Day: When exporting to Final Draft 7 FCF, be sure to check the options to adjust quotes/ellipses/dashes etc in Compile Draft.
Tip of the Day: When the editor is split, the pane that is active displays an underline in the document title in its header bar.
Tip of the Day: If you accidentally hit delete on a file, the file is not permanently deleted, just moved to Scrivener’s Trash folder.
Tip of the Day: The Keywords HUD (heads-up display) allows you to organise keywords and drag them onto documents to assign them.
Tip of the Day: The little arrow next to the magnifying glass in the toolbar search field allows you to change the search parameters.
Tip of the Day: Project Settings allows you to set up your own list of labels and status descriptions, & you can rename ‘Label’ & ‘Status’.
Tip of the Day: Holding the Option key down while clicking on a triangle in the binder/outliner will expand everything inside the folder.
Tip of the Day: Holding the Option key down while dragging in the binder/outliner will disallow drop-ons, making dropping between easier.
Tip of the Day: Project Targets allow you to set a word/character count target for the entire draft, and for each writing session.
Tip of the Day: To exit a search, either click on the X in the search field or in the footer bar beneath the binder.
Tip of the Day: View > Reveal in Binder (opt-cmd-R) will show where the current editor document is in the binder.
Tip of the Day: You can set up full screen mode to look like an old-fashioned computer by playing with the Full Screen Preferences.
Tip of the Day: To enter line breaks into synopses when editing in the corkboard or outliner, use Opt-return instead of just return.
Tip of the Day: Create custom project templates by setting up a bare bones project with settings you want and using File > Save As Template.
Tip of the Day: You can customise all keyboard shortcuts in Scrivener and other Cocoa programs via System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse.
Tip of the Day: Coloured text will be exported as revised text when exporting to Final Draft 8 FDX format.
Tip of the Day: To see where a project is saved, ctrl-click on the .scriv icon next to the project name at the very top of the window.
Tip of the Day: Scrivener supports MultiMarkdown (MMD). MMD is a simple mark-up syntax that can be converted into LaTeX and XHTML.
Tip of the Day: New docs use the current mode. If in script mode, new docs will use script mode. Cmd-3 switches between script and prose.
Tip of the Day: Folders and text files are much the same. To see the text of a folder, click on the corkboard icon.
Tip of the Day: You can convert a text file into a folder and vice versa via Documents > Convert > to File / to Folder.
Tip of the Day: Edit Scrivenings allows you to work on multiple text documents as though they were one, even inside the Research folder.
Tip of the Day: To create your own scriptwriting formats, use Text > Scriptwriting > Script Settings (useful for custom formatting too).
Tip of the Day: Edit > Find > Find Annotation allows you to cycle through all annotations in a project.
Tip of the Day: To make individual documents retain format in Compile Draft (e.g. title pages), check Preserve Formatting in the Inspector.
Tip of the Day: Before making major changes to a text doc, hit cmd-5 (Take Snapshot), so that you can always return to the earlier version.
Tip of the Day: Documents > Convert allows you to convert PDF or web files into text files for editing (some formatting may be lost).
Tip of the Day: Documents > Merge merges selected documents, although Edit Scrivenings is usually better for editing different docs as one.
Tip of the Day: Entering <$p> in the header/footer field in Compile Draft / Text Options will insert the page number in the compiled file.
Tip of the Day: Prefer the Outliner to the Corkboard? Preference > Navigation tab allows you to choose which one gets shown by default.
Tip of the Day: For writing in languages that use accents, turning off typographer’s quotes is recommended.
Tip of the Day: Opt-cmd-up/down arrow zooms in/out on text, PDF and web files.
Tip of the Day: To change the font in multiple documents, set it in Text Editing Preferences and use Documents > Convert > Default Style.
Tip of the Day: Hit cmd-. or opt-Esc while typing to bring up the auto-complete list. Add project auto-complete words via the Edit menu.
Tip of the Day: The two arrows in the footer bar beneath the outliner and corkboard make the other editor show the selected docs.
Tip of the Day: If you would like to change the organisation of your toolbar, go to View > Customize Toolbar…
Tip of the Day: Command-r (cmd-r) will quickly show or hide the ruler.
Tip of the Day: You can get rid of the lines from index cards using the Fonts & Colors Preferences.
Tip of the Day: The lock button at the bottom of the Inspector locks the Inspector to one editor, regardless of which has the focus.
Tip of the Day: If you don’t like the start panel, prevent it from appearing by unchecking “Show start panel…” in Preferences > General.
Tip of the Day: To make the window fit the whole screen, use Window > Zoom to Fit Screen.
Tip of the Day: The scriptwriting features can be bent to set up formatting styles, so can be useful to non-scriptwriters too.
Tip of the Day: If writing in a language in which “i” is not always capitalised, turn this behaviour off via Preferences > Text Editing.
Tip of the Day: Services allow you to get text into Scrivener while working in another application (10.6 users will need to turn them on).
Tip of the Day: You can give the corkboard a different background image or a plain colour background via the Fonts & Colors Preferences.
Tip of the Day: To bring in outlines from OmniOutliner, export from OO as OPML and import the .opml file into Scrivener.
Tip of the Day: The triangle next to the magnifying glass in the toolbar search field provides a menu that allows you to refine your search.
Tip of the Day: To use auto-complete, hit opt-Escape or cmd-period after typing the beginning of a word.
Tip of the Day: To insert symbols or uncommon characters, use the special characters panel by going to Edit > Special Characters…
Tip of the Day: You can customise the margins around the text area via Preferences > Text Editing.
Tip of the Day: To hear your text spoken aloud, Edit > Speech > Start Speaking (Scrivener 2.0 will allow selections to be read out too).
Tip of the Day: To paste text into Scrivener using the default format rather than the original format, use Edit > Paste and Match Style.
Tip of the Day: You can switch the keyboard shortcuts for Paste and Paste and Match Style using the Keyboard System Preferences.
Tip of the Day: You can get rid of shadows from the corkboard by adjusting the slider in the Fonts & Colors Preferences.
Tip of the Day: You can make Scrivener’s interface sparse by changing background colours to white, hiding the toolbar and header bars etc.
Tip of the Day: Clicking on the icon next to the document title in the editor header bar brings up a useful menu.
Tip of the Day: Control-clicking on the icon next to the file name in the header bar brings up the file path.
Tip of the Day: To prevent the binder changing documents in a particular editor, use Lock in Place (opt-cmd-L); the header bar turns pink.
Tip of the Day: To strike through text, select it and hit shift-cmd-hyphen.
Tip of the Day: You can move corkboard pins to the top-right corner so as not to obscure the title via the Fonts & Colors Preferences.
Tip of the Day: Typewriter scrolling keeps typing in the centre of the editor. Turn it on or off in any mode using the Text menu.
Tip of the Day: You can customise the separators that appear between texts in Edit Scrivenings via Preferences > General.
Tip of the Day: Shift-cmd-H highlights text using the last selected highlight colour.
Tip of the Day: Remember that the text around footnotes should appear as you would want it once the footnote is removed (spaces etc).
Tip of the Day: Text > Show Invisibles shows hidden characters such as spaces and line breaks.
Easter Egg of the Day: Hold down the command key while clicking on “About Scrivener” to read some of our favourite quotes…
Tip of the Day: If italics turn into underlines when compiling, turn off “Convert italics to underlines” in Compile Draft > Text Options.
Tip of the Day: You can turn off cursor blinking and even have a retro block cursor - see Preferences > Text Editing.
Tip of the Day: When exporting to plain text, get rid of curly quotes and smart hyphens etc using the Text Options pane of Compile Draft.
Tip of the Day: You can save your Compile Draft settings for use with other projects using the “Save” and “Load” buttons in Compile Draft.
Tip of the Day: Folders open as a corkboard by default, but you can change this behaviour using the Navigation pane of the Preferences.
Tip of the Day: Remember - folders are no different to text items. Deselect the corkboard or outliner to see or edit their textual contents.
Tip of the Day: You can switch between inches and centimetres as the ruler unit via the Text Editing pane of the Preferences.
Tip of the Day: RTF is almost always the best format to use for exporting to Word or other word processors.
Tip of the Day: File > Export > Files… will export selected documents, reproducing the binder structure as files and folders in the Finder.
Tip of the Day: To easily add diacritics, type Option+[e, u, n, or i], and then type the letter that should go beneath the chosen mark.
Tip of the Day: Holding down the Option key while clicking on the split button in the header bar will change the split type.
Tip of the Day: You can switch between the Modified and Created date in the inspector by clicking on the up/down arrows next to the date.
Tip of the Day: You can insert Scrivener Links into the notes pane in the inspector, as well as the main text.
Tip of the Day: Using the search field menu, you can search by label & then save your search - useful for tracking characters, for instance.
Tip of the Day: Use the synopsis fields to write your own brief descriptions of associated documents for the best results…
…(as opposed to relying on the synopses that are automatically filled by Scrivener after import, which use the first few lines of text).
Tip of the Day: You can hide the index card and general pane of the inspector by clicking on their title bars.
Tip of the Day: Hold down the green “Add” button in the toolbar for more options - to add a folder or import a web page.
Tip of the Day: Select multiple docs in the binder then enter full screen. Use cmd-[ and cmd-] to navigate between the selected docs in full screen.
Tip of the Day: With the main window on one screen and full screen on another, Opt-click items in the binder to switch docs in full screen.
Tip of the Day: Move the cursor to the bottom of the screen in full screen to show the control panel, or the top of the screen for menus.
Tip of the Day: You can use ctrl-cmd-left/right/up/down arrow to move documents around in the binder, outliner or corkboard.
Tip of the Day: Cmd-D will duplicate the selected documents (sort of an all-in-one copy-and-paste in one).
Tip of the Day: Select some text and hit shift-opt-cmd-T to set the title of the document using the selection.
Tip of the Day: Set up a blank project with your preferred keywords, labels etc & use Save As Template to use it as a base for new projects.
Tip of the Day: Use File > Backup Project To every day (preferably as soon as you open a project and just before you close it).
Tip of the Day: A curled corner to a document icon indicates that it has a snapshot associated with it.
Tip of the Day: You can convert web pages and PDF files to text files using Documents > Convert.
Tip of the Day: Ctrl-clicking on a multiple selection of documents allows you to assign a label or status to all of them at once.
Tip of the Day: To assign keywords to multiple documents, select the documents and drag & drop the keywords from the Keywords HUD onto them.
Tip of the Day: Hovering the mouse over an item in the binder will bring up its synopsis in a tooltip.
Tip of the Day: You can drag items from the binder into the editor header bar as another way of opening them.
Tip of the Day: You can drag supported file types from the references pane of the inspector to the editor header bar to view them.
Tip of the Day: You can drag supported file types from the Finder to the editor header bar to view them in Scrivener without importing them.
Tip of the Day: You can use the zoom pop-up in the footer bar to increase text size instead of making the font bigger.
Tip of the Day: While typing, hit cmd-period or shift-Escape to bring up the auto-complete list.
Tip of the Day: Click on the image of the three dots at the right of the outliner title bar to see a list of columns that can be added to the outliner.
Tip of the Day: Folders can be set to open in outline mode instead of corkboard mode by default using the Navigation Preferences pane.
Tip of the Day: Select several documents and hit opt-cmd-G to place them all inside a new folder.
Tip of the Day: Resize images in text by double-clicking on them to bring up the scale panel.
Tip of the Day: Window > Zoom to Fit Screen (ctrl-cmd-=) stretches the window to fit the screen.
Tip of the Day: You can insert images directly into the text by dragging or by using Edit > Insert > Image From File.
Tip of the Day: You can drag from the references table in the inspector to the header bar of the editor pane.
Tip of the Day: Status stamps can be displayed across index cards by selecting View > Index Cards > Show Stamps.
Tip of the Day: Set up the status list in File > Label & Status Setup…
Tip of the Day: If you accidentally hit the delete key and delete a document - do not worry! It has just moved to the Trash folder.
Tip of the Day: You can place icons in the status stamp by using a wingdings-style font: semigreenpenny.com/img/forum … 083618.jpg
Tip of the Day: Select text and hit shift-cmd-hyphen to strike it out.
Tip of the Day: Take a snapshot of your document before you start editing for the day, hit cmd-5, and you can return to your earlier version any time you want.
Tip of the Day: You can add project-specific words to the auto-complete list via Edit > Edit Auto-Complete List…
Tip of the Day: You can drag supported files from the Finder to the editor header bar in Scrivener for just viewing images, PDF files etc in Scriv without importing.
Tip of the Day: Hit cmd-R in an editor to bring up the ruler.
Tip of the Day: Scrivener imports OPML, so you can export from OmniOutliner as OPML and import your outline into Scrivener.
Tip of the Day: You can use the Text > Scriptwriting > Script Settings even if you are not a scriptwriter, to set up your own custom formatting.